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Ada Lovelace
Original for sale · sales (at) almario (dot) ca
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), English mathematician and writer, and the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. Working from Charles Babbage's designs for the Analytical Engine, she wrote, in her 1843 notes, what is widely regarded as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. She grasped, more than a century early, that such a machine might manipulate not only numbers but any content reducible to symbols.
Portrayed in dyforme (2016) as a large-scale photomosaic of 4,800 pictorial elements, dismantled piece by piece by a machine over the course of the exhibition.
Photomosaic, digital print, 4,800 pictorial elements, 4,800 pins, plexiglass. 75 × 150 cm / 30 × 60 in. Commissioned by ACREQ | ELEKTRA. Production assistants: Christine Belley, Rudy Mae Vézina Dionne.
Original for sale
One original exists, bearing the marks of its own destruction.
Available for sale (inquiries: sales (at) almario (dot) ca):
- 2016 original, destroyed at Arsenal art contemporain, Montreal (BIAN 2016)
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